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Turn off Apple Wallet / Apple Pay notifications and nag screens

The latest version of IOS for iPhone, iPad, and iWatch devices really, really wants you to set up Apple Wallet / Apple Pay. Your devices want you to embed Apple in the middle of every purchase, and they’ll pester you every time you pick up your device with full-screen dialogs insisting that you need to finish setting up Apple Wallet. Right. Now.

I try to limit the number of things that can access my money, and I have no reason or desire to set up Apple Wallet, so I turned the notifications off. They are embedded in three separate places on the iPhone.

I did all 3 of the above suggestions. I still have a notice in Setting stating “Finish Setting Up Your iPhone”. When I click on the notice, it’s prompting me to “Set Up Apple Pay”. How do I get rid of this reminder?

Accept the prompt to set up apple pay (either do it from the popup nag message, or from tapping on settings and doing it there), but don’t actually do the setup; instead, at the first screen, look to the bottom. There is a place to click that says “Set up later in wallet”. Click that, then you’re done! No more nagging messages.

The point of the article is to turn off the nag screens without setting up the wallet. If you don’t set up the wallet it is rendered unusable.

If you want to use the wallet, set it up. Setting it up will also get your phone to stop nagging you since you have now complied with its orders and it got what it wanted. For now. Until it wants something else.

Read the instructions. No more Apple Pay. It’s pretty god damn simple… because this article makes it simple. Did it in one try, while extremely drunk. You need to learn to read. Thank you master of the iPhone, Earl C. Ruby III